Four charged after Mashpee heroin bust

A Brewster man regarded as an "upper-level heroin dealer" was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 bail Thursday after allegedly smashing out a window, leaping from the second floor of a Mashpee apartment and leading police on a long chase that ended with his arrest on drug charges Wednesday night.

FALMOUTH — A Brewster man regarded as an "upper-level heroin dealer" was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 bail Thursday after allegedly smashing out a window, leaping from the second floor of a Mashpee apartment and leading police on a long chase that ended with his arrest on drug charges Wednesday night.

During a months-long investigation, Mashpee police and the Barnstable Police Department's Narcotics Unit learned that Kevin Bonelli, 39, of Seaview Road in Brewster, was storing and distributing heroin from an apartment at 300 Falmouth Road in Mashpee, according to the arrest report.

Following a "controlled purchase," police obtained a warrant June 6 to search the so-called "stash house." On Wednesday night, police entered the apartment with the warrant to find Bonelli running from an upstairs bedroom.

Bonelli then jumped from the second floor and led officers on a chase before being arrested without any further incident, police said. He was charged with distributing heroin, possession to distribute and resisting arrest, according to Falmouth District Court records.

In 2008, Bonelli was convicted in Barnstable Superior Court of possessing heroin with intent to distribute and sentenced to five years in prison, according to the report. In 1999, he was found guilty of conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substances Act and was given a six-month suspended sentence.

In the upstairs bedroom, police found Christopher Redgate, 31, and Susan Datz, 52, preparing to inject heroin, according to the report. Officers also found 37-year-old Nicholas Govoni and another man in a bedroom where they had just shot up heroin, police said.

The four told police they had given Bonelli money and he left and returned with the heroin, according to the report.

Police went on to find a plastic baggie containing 4 grams of heroin and another with 2 grams of heroin, along with more than $800 in cash, three corner-cut baggies and a digital scale, the report says.

Redgate, of Marstons Mills, was released on his own recognizance after pleading not guilty to drug possession.

Judge Michael Creedon ordered Govoni, of Falmouth, held in lieu of $500 on heroin possession and resisting arrest charges.

Datz, who lists the Mashpee apartment as her home address, was released on her own recognizance after pleading not guilty to one count of heroin possession.

The four people charged are scheduled to return to Falmouth District Court July 11 for a pretrial hearing, according to court records. It was unclear why the fifth person found inside the home was not charged.